2. You can easily make your own patterns for the top if you don't want to purchase the pattern. Take the egg apart and place one half in the center of a piece of paper so that the open end is on the paper. Trace the egg to make a circle.

3. Find the center of the circle and use a math compass to draw another circle that is 5 1/4" in diameter around the first circle.

4. Draw another smaller circle inside the egg circle.

5. Cut out the large circle and the inside circle. Cut little slits all the way around the inside of the circle and fold down the tabs.

6. Color the paper circle with colored pencils. Use the chalk markers to decorate the eggs. The chalk markers will wipe off with use or water but they do make beautiful decorations on the eggs.

* If you have a printer that has water soluble ink, print out the pattern onto white computer paper and then use a copy machine to copy the pattern onto yellow paper. (*Inkjet printers are water soluble.)

2. Place a small amount of oil (1 teaspoon) into a cup. Use a paint brush to brush the oil over the back of the cross. When you have covered the entire cross with oil use paper towels to soak up any left over oil by pressing the cross pattern between to sheets of paper towels. The oil on the paper will make the paper translucent.

3. Tape the cross on a window. The images in the cross will seem to glow.

2. In class have your children paint the butterflies using Bingo dotters or paint. When the paint is dry they may want to add sequins, stickers or other decorative items.

Easter egg shells make great confetti! Try to keep the shells as big as possible when peeling your eggs because it will make it easier to use the colored side of the eggs for the confetti. Dry the egg shells in a warm oven in a pie tin before using them. Place glue on the picture where you want the egg shell confetti, and then place the egg shell on the glue. If the confetti pieces are too big and hang over the lines, just press down on the shells with you finger nail to break off the extra pieces.

1. Ordering Game - Each teams gets a set of ten cards. Place them in a bag, and have them shake the bag and dump out the contents. The first team to put the cards in order and shout “Alleluia” wins. Sent in by Marianne

2. Easter Egg Hunt - Hide the eggs around your room. If a child finds a card, he brings it to the front of the room and places with all the other cards in the correct order.

3. Easter Egg Relay - Divide your children up into teams of ten or less. Each team gets a set of egg cards, and each player gets at least one card. The first child in each time walks with an egg on his shoe up to the front of the room where he places the egg in order and then runs back to the start line where he tags the next child in line who then races to get his egg in order. If the egg falls off of a child's shoe, the child must stop and place it back on his shoe before moving again. The team that gets all it's cards order first wins.

4. Play a Concentration Game - Make two sets of cards and lay them on a table face down. Have your children take turns picking up two cards they think might match. If they cards match, they get to keep the cards and tell you what part of the story they represent. Keep playing until all the cards are gone. They player with the most cards wins.

5. Make an Egg-shaped Book - Print out a set of cards for each child and cut them out. Have your children place the card in order and then punch a hole in the tops of the eggs. Time them together with a pretty ribbon.

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6. Story Review - Place the egg story cards on a table in front of the children. Tell your children that as you review the events of the story to raise their hands if they think they know what card might represent that event. Once you have talked about one event ask a child to point to the egg that he thinks might represent that part of the story. If he is correct have him pick up the egg and place it in a row in the order of the events.

We would love to hear how you use the Easter Story Eggs. Send us your ideas and we will publish them here for others to use.

7. Bulletin Board Display - I have just completed a Bulletin board display for our Children's Corner which I have called EASTER IS FOR REMEMBERING. I used a large stained glass window featuring the cross for the central section and used the Easter story eggs - 5 on each side to complete the picture. It looks most effective and I am sure the children will enjoy it as much as the adults who have already had a chance to see it. A smaller display board emphasizes the Last Supper and Communion - also using the egg shape theme. It will be a reminder of their Sunday School lessons during the time it is up as they always enjoy discussing each new display. Stella

8. Egg Mobile - I have also printed out another set of the Easter story eggs for a friend to laminate. These will become a mobile which can be easily stored and used again each year. Stella

FREE Hosanna Egg Coloring Sheet!

1. Print out the pattern and make copies if your printer uses water soluble ink.

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2. Have your children draw patterns on the eggs with crayons and then paint over the crayon. The water paint will not stick to the crayon.

Jelly Bean Poem and Frame Easter Craft

What you will need:

Color Paper or Printer that prints in color

Glue

Scissors

Construction Paper

How to Make the Jelly Bean Picture Frame:

1. Print out the poem pattern and cut it out, or print the following poem on a piece of paper. (Pattern available to members of The Resource Room.)

Jelly Beans
By Carolyn Warvel

Five or six, or just a few,
Pop them in your mouth and chew,
Yellow, purple, orange, and blue,
Just remember it is true,
Jesus died for me and you.

2. Glue the poem onto the center of a piece of construction paper.

3. Print out the jelly beans patterns. (Both a black and white and colored jelly bean patterns are available to members.) Print out the black and white pattern onto different colors of paper to save on expensive printer ink.

Note - It is illegal to publish this poem on any other web site without permission, even if you include the author's name.

Memory Cross Easter Coloring Cards

Children of all ages love Memory Cross cards. They are fun to create and hard to put down. They are kind of like the song that never ends -- once you start opening them, you just can't stop. That's what makes them such a great memory device.

Memory Cross offers many different types: preprinted, coloring cards, and blank ones that you can use to create your own cards.

Jesus Ascending to Heaven Craft for Kids

What you will need:

16 oz. Blue Plastic Cup

Card stock (Heavy paper)

Cotton Balls

String

Tape

Colored Pencils

How to make the Jesus Ascending to Heaven Cup Craft:

1. Before class, print out pictures of Jesus onto card stock and cut them apart. Cut star shapes from card stock. Punch holes in the middle bottom of the foam cups. Cut blue paper to fit around the cups and tape or glue it on.

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2. In class have your children glue cotton balls on the cups to look like clouds and color the picture of Jesus.

3. When they are done coloring, tape a star to one end of a string and push it through the hole at the bottom of the cup. Tape the picture of Jesus to the other end of the string as shown in the picture. When your children pull on the string Jesus will ascend to heaven!

This was an incredibly effective craft! My 2 to 5 year olds practically danced around the room, retelling the story, and every child could successfully retell his or her parent the lesson! - Jodie Wills-Jordan (Pinterest)

Jesus Ascends Activity Sheet

Children color the picture of Jesus and then insert strip into the background picture.

They pull the paper strip up so that Jesus looks like he is ascending into the clouds.

The patterns for this craft are available on the Sunday School lesson "Jesus Ascends" on The Resource Room.

Story of Easter Spinner Game

Stickers feature characters from the Easter story, with tomb and stone, plus phrase balloons "He is not here. He is risen!" and "Jesus is alive!" Acid free, 6 sheets just right for storytelling, crafts, and decorations. Faith that Sticks collection.

How to make:

1. Print out the Spinner Game Pattern onto blue paper . Cut it out and glue it to a cardboard box. Punch a hole in the middle of the game board and the box. Make a spinner and punch a hole at the bottom. Insert a brad through the spinner, the game board, and the box and spread it out. Young children may have a hard time using the spinner so you may want to substitute a die Pattern (Printing Problems?)

2. Use one set of stickers to make the game board. Place one of each sticker on the game board as shown in the picture.

3. Give each child a set of stickers. Children take turns spinning the spinner and placing a sticker on a piece of paper that matches the picture the spinner lands on. If the spinner lands on a picture the child already has he loses his turn. The child who gets his picture finished first by using all the stickers wins. If you are using a die instead, children take turns throwing the die. Children place a sticker on their picture according to which picture on the die is facing up.

4. The stickers you don't use on the game board are "free stickers". The children can place them anywhere they want at the beginning of the game.

Easter Windsock Easter Craft

Highlighter Markers and/or Water Color Paint (We used both on this craft)

How to Make the Easter Wind Sock Craft:

1. Turn your paper so that it is in the landscape view or longways.
Draw an Easter picture on a piece of card stock or use the pattern.

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2. Tape or glue streamers to the bottom of the picture.

3. Curl the picture into a tube shape and staple it closed.

Children will have fun coloring the pattern and then
taping crepe paper streamers to the bottom. They look beautiful
blowing in the wind. If you live in a rainy climate, you can laminate
the paper and use plastic streamers instead.

I just want to let you know how helpful Danielle's Place and the Resource Room have been for me. I have the craft center for our 3 year-kindergartners. I have no children and some times am not too imaginative. Your website has been a life saver. I've used many of your ideas and patterns from Easter to Christmas to our summer program. . . . You have so much to offer, that I end up spending hours reading and making copies for future lessons. Thanks again. Ann Keeler

Egglo Glow in the Dark Easter Eggs - Have a glow-in-the dark Easter egg hunt. This is a great activity for children's ministry.
You can also use them for Easter crafts. Each egg has a cross shape on the outside.